“But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.”
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“Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.”
“Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.”
“There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”
“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.”
“As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.”
“Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.”
“The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.”
“Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.”
“Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.”
“States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.”
“I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.”
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”
“Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.”
“More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.”
“Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.”
“Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.”
“Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever they move and their achievements surpass those of ordinary men is foreknowledge.”
“These are the times that try men's souls.”
“The only really happy folk are married women and single men.”
“Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.”
“It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.”
“No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.”
“All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.”